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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 1917.

A Double Safeguard.

When buying Worcestershire Sauce, always look for the signature in White

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Lea & Perrins' label and bottle are copied to such an extent that these precautions are necessary, in order to make sure that you are being supplied with the original and genuine Worcestershire and not one of its many imitations.

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ON THE CANAL-AND BEYOND

Along the banks of the Suez Canal and thence along the old coast road to the east you will find to-day, between the endless series of British encampments, caravans of camels passing to and fro with their burdens or lying patiently at their mangers and chewing the rud with that tranquil expression of the beast which

GERMAN OUTRAGES.

THEIR REAL MOTIVES.

[FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAFE'S HPEDIAL:

DORRESPONDENT AT ROTTERDAM.

THE WAR SHOPS OF BRITAIN.

(BTC. VINOE.

Same day the history will be written of the war shops of Britain, those shops without which her thousands would haya -

"Our 7-boats will attain their object died in vain on the wire entanglemente of the German trenchca. The world This believed before the war in the scientifio if we at home keep our nerves." message from Admiral Tirpitz to the genius of the German people in their skill is engmists and as engineers, Then it Essen branch of the Independent Comsaw tint though all this genus had bean

"

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No one will know till long after penes comes all thut Britain had to do, and all

she has done in those factories.. were still to build when the Strugglo

na stress of war can disturb. There aromittee for a German Peace" gives the tired to the uses of war, yei H tailed more camels' gathered have than ever wore Jeue to the internal condition of Germany, were the armes ut the Allies, that it was not so strong us the endurance and nssembled in the bazaars of Chiro es' and partly explains the murderous aerial courage of men. And then a sus how campaign agamst Englund. The German one by one the inventions of Germany Damascus. Though the defence of Egypt General Suuf is forced to be guided innere met and matched by the inventions has been carried forward from the Canal its direction of affairs, not only by mili- of the Allies. Until now it feels that it itself to the hills and dunes of the Sinai tury considerations, but also by the netes must change its old estimates and look so desert and to the Land of Promise sity of endeavouring to tasten the slack France and Britain not only for the war- ening nerves of the people. For the ful- Like men, bas for the mecñanical genius beyond, the Canal is still an Integral Glmont of the promise conveyed in Tir part of the defensive whenie. Rods and 's message is already over-due. The

object "

of the -bout campaign was railways, it is true, run out here and to end the war in three months, and the there eastwards from the bank, but there Gerian people are now realising that, far from bringing peace nearer, the cam- remains a vast hinterland unreclaimed paign of murder on the high seas has only from the desert waste in which our troops prolonged their miseries by calling new continually move,

The riparian sand, enemies into the Beld.

Something must be done to raise the if one may so call them, and the little flagging spirits, and that something takes Lancashires-in-the-desert which the loving two forms. The first is the militarily sentiment of the North Country Terriland.

fruitless but spectacular air raids on Eng- The second is the publication, torials has imagined, have become a net-every day, of some sort of list of alleged submarine booty. In connection with the striking fact is, compared with the earlier statistics, the absence of any con- vincing

details. Another feature worthy figures of the total tonnage sunk during of notice is the non-publication of the May, undoubtedly prompted by the eir- cumstance that show a

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THE CAMEL TRANSPORT CORPS.

after

beg. It was not my that guns and. unitions and transport were wanting, but that she had to contend with strange methods of warfare, methods caat were known, but forbidden, and that none believed any civilised nation would ever

Poison gas and liquid fire were Weapons against which at first the Allies round them a defence, and they did it 2.444 $11 wrence. DHL their enemista

engines of war, with the years of peace to not as the Germans had invented their work in, but while ineu were dying in hundreds, and the lines of the Allies were 391 priti. AL CAD turn of the war it has been the sainty, The Viermans used wire emig meals as nigh and as deep as woode. The Allics found an explosive to break them to proces.

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tron and Concrete

work of ronds and lines; and a motor lorry will rattle you from Ballel to (ont, away in the desert) as fast as a jolling car on the roads of Connemara But ere long you will come to a region which cur locomotive has not yet de

The malls put Daily he carries the food and water for That this is so is implicitly admitted by the men in the extreme line of trenches the Hamburger Fremdenblatt, which, in

nie spalterlag weight and at the outposts beyond, and on lús quoting a Swiss paper's statestent to this the unburden. back are loaded the posts and wires which effect.

matig niu wee basing mig guns and small remarking significantly, daily extend civilisation. He hears. Even if this be correct," laboriously uns, and trench mortars in such numbers that those first bombardments by the too, the material with which the line of explains that probably fewer U-boats are

Germans were as summer showers to what defence is being pushed forward: he is operating, owing to the necessity of their infantry must now endure. When harnessed to guns in places where motors fitting. Arguing that the submarines men began to fail them the Germans are baffled, and he carries the ambulance have caused a reduction of imports to Enged of the desert, in which two THIM reland, the sante paper claims to be in pos defences, and increased the number of balanced on either side of his hump. session of ofheiat British statistics

their machine guns, and made almost showing that the imports of Chili salt petre last April were 480 tons, compared could fire at the rate of fifty. The Allies every bin a machine gunner so that each The Camel Transport Corps, although with 7.864 in the same month last year replied with those Tanks which can turn not exactly & fighting force, has been in of kali saltpetre 21,000 odd tons, compar any bultes and break down any defence. action and received its baptism of free with 51,000 odd, petroleum 20,400.000 Se each device of the termans has been No shell or bullet can excite the stolid, gallons, compared with 35,100,000, benzine

met and demented, turned against Leem, contemplative animal; but it might have 10,200,000 gallons, compared with

or surpassed. This 28 tile work tha, nje been expected that the camel-drivers, | 15,700,000.

invenors and vagoners of the alite and Fellaheen enrolled in the Egyptian vill Reverting to the air-raid recounts,

the millions of men and women in their ages, unarmed and untrained for war, these obscure everything else in the Ger

war shape have done, Would have run for it at the first sign man Press, including the dwindling sub-

But the Gernumns have not beest the only of attack, Yet in fact most of them marine returns. Even before to-day's loss

vine Ailies responded admirably to the call of their of another Zeppelin the failure of these ty that the engineers et

have had to British officers, and stuck

fight. They have had that to their baby-killing gas-bags had become obvious, knee-deep mud of the shell-tom, and animals while bullets whizzed around. The Kreuzzeltung, commenting on the

traffic-worn battle country, which in any With characteristic simplicity, or, it may aeroplane aitack on Londen, suye: Pother war would have made amics be obstinacy, when told to bring in their to now these attacks were carried out by impotent, and they have built these canels to shelter they insisted on taking airships, which, however, in consequence caterpillar wheel tractors which can carry with them blankets which are issued to of the perfecting of the English arrange heavy guns over any ground. The story every man, lest they should be stolen in

ments of defence during the war, were

of the transport of the Allied armies will their absence, Soine wanted to mount a exposed to increasing dangers, so that it not be the least wonderful-chajter hill under Bre to get their money from was only with considerable losses they hist

14 will be the story history of the war. their tents. The contempt which a were, able to do anything Would the of that network of railways wich the Sudanese stalwart feels for the modern paper have written this if it had been British army has built behind it; of rull- long range fighting was expressed by one able to foresee that in a few hours its

ways taken

up entire in England and head man-the more warlike Sudanese admission of the perfection of the Eug | brought to Franer, and OL strange regularly not as headmen over the Egyplish defence would he magnificently en- machines from Canada, which lay lines tian fellaheen-who remarked, as he dorsed? All the papers try to excuse the faster than any gangs of men, so that now shells burst, that in his country they murder of chilrden with the argument in o day the Brush Army can trans

fought it out with knives."

But an

that it is inevitable when attacking, port more munitions than last year it other, who possessed the little knowledge" fortress' like. London. Safs the

could transport in a month. And besides of danger which is often so dangerous, Kreutzeitung, for example: There all these inventions and labours of the when told to leave cover and fetch his is absolutely on occasion for then in Eng army there are those strange inventions camels, declined: Me stoppa one last to excite themselves over this affair of the shipyards, from which the veil has Dardanelles; me no stoppu two, The (this affair being the murdered babies ) been lifted a little, these steel nets in comel-drivers themselves have planted a for our real objects are the docks, white se suumarines were trapped, these stigma on those who ran away, classing wharves, railways, barracks, and ether war ships unlike any ships the waters had them as Bias (girls) who are no fit institutions of military importance of ever go which no coperto coud harm. for the society of Rigala (men). And which London is full." Even this

We may envy those who will be able to in some companies to-day the lines are hypocrisy is surpassed by contrasting look back calmly on the efforts of these divided between those who stayed and London as the object of attack with times; read their ult mors; wonder at those who fled ; and it is reward or punish-Freiburg;

the many things that were done, know all ment to be moved from the one to the There is little doubt that the German the mysteries of the shipyards and the other.

twi-fold real motive of the baby killing engine shops and the Incturies, and see in expeditions is, first, the erroneous idea its completeness the work o chree years that the effect on the British public is of war. We, who are in the midst of the same as that produced on their less all, can realise it only by glimpses when. It is the paradox of modern warfare stoical own people at the mere threat of we come suddenly on those pinces that wo that with all the mechanical beans of bomb ttnek, and, secondly, as already knew before the war, and see the change. locomotion the progress of an army is suggested, the raising of flagging courage it was thus that I came spon 3 พร almost alware much slower than it used by creating the belief that England is building town that I had not visited for to be. Today there are brilliant being "vitally damaged."

Three

It had seemed a basy place. dashes and every mile of advancy even in the campaign for restoring the in those days, full of the furious labour

years. across the desert has had to be painfully nerves of the German people Hindenburg and ringing noise of the yards. There gained and then-blessed word--" con has again been called in aid. The latest were ten thousand men working in it. solidated. The army which has thus hit utterance of the Prussian idol is Now there are mit 40,000 aiding by bit driven the Turk off the message to Essen, in which he says submarines and cruisers, and orging and desert that bounds Egypt on the Only fight on, everybody at his post, welding heavy guns; and there are 10,000 east has advanced along.

sin and true to our Kaiser, and full victory woes busy at the taking of all kinds of track which passes near

coast with a peace securing to Germany its | sneris, There are no 0. that line from Africa to Asia. It is a coun-welfare and prosperity is ours."

THE SLOWNESS OF MODERN AUMIERË”-

the The

try not of mountains and ravines but

a

towa. Neither by day nor night do the vast furnaces ever slacken, the huge erancs rest, the great hammers cease in thy

Twenty-four hours striking.

of rolling sand dunes and green oases,– Hods, as the Arabs call then-where pains, peeping our of the surrounding tween 110 degrees and 120 degrees in the twenty-four they toil; aut as the day- bareness. give that wonderful variety of shade and there is no shade. It is shift go home to rest the night-shift settle a fair test of endurance for the Tommies to their round of labour tid day comes

THE NEED OF WATER,

again.

colour that is characteristic of the desert. 1 ay be ikened to a sandy Switzen- to march through the sands under this

But the work of that towa is not be land in which the yellow ridges and erests blaze, but they count it all in the day's take the place of suun fields and glacier heat by night as fast as it takes it in workers. It is to be measured by a much

work. Happily the desert cast out the measured by the five-fold increase in its. and the clusters of date-trees represent the lakos. From time immemorial it has by day, and the evenings are always greater standard. In the one town in

fresh been the domain of the Bedawin, the true.

one month more shells are made, more gimies, who have no home save their

submarines finished than in the whole of caniels, but now it is popalous with canga As in the days of the Exodus, the great Great Britain in the course of a whole and bivouaes. You see before you an ap; need of the sojourners in the desert in year before the war And that is only parently endless vista of sandhills and water. Modern engineering, with all its one town. I went through it in a driving palm grous, but descend the slopes devices, can not prove much on the rain that seemed to be washing down to little and you will find a bustling camp ancient ways of finding wells in the sand. earth again the dirt from the surke laden gay with tents, lar one hollow you will A dirmer with his rod regularly accoin-sky. But out of that grey rain-soddens. be greeted with a broad Yorkshire acpanies the troops at each forward move, town the noise of the hammers rose in cent. Here the Australian and there the and where the rod ends in his hands triumpli, beating out the song of victory, New Zealand Hag marks the gallant the sappers dig. The modern army, how and I seemed to hear the echo in them of rivalry of our oversen troops pushing ever, has not a miraculous rod like that those million other hammers in all the forward their advance. Patrols of light of Moses which can make the brackish towns of Great Britain, day and night horse scour every regres of the “ Gebel," water sweet. It is not dificult to fint without ceasing, as they beat to that same and caravans of canes, often a mile long wells, but few are serviceable for the men o loaded with food and drink for man and Camels, luckily, are not squeamish about beast, thread the ridged from twilight the more or less saltiness of the water,

of dawn to the evening

and they will march two, or even What makes life possible for the troops days on one drink. A continual string moving through the soft sand in the mam

of camels, therefore, proceeds from the mer heat is that the sea is near, and the bourne of civilisation, as represented by A Leeds soldier, Private George Young, bathing is splendid like the bathing at pipes and a filtered water supply into the Royal Munster Fusiliers, who was taken Ostend In the days before the war. Adepths of the wilderness, loaded with prisoner by the Germans in August, 1911, broad and level beach which would make racks of fresh water for the troops be has, with a comrade, succeeded at the the fortune of any resort at home yond. Before the campaign is over the third attempt in making his escape and stretches easterd From Port Said mile desert route from Egypt to Syria will le has reached his home. Theo two men werd on mile, However still the day, the Tined with pipes below and wires above out with a working party, when they daves break in a continus roll, and when the ground, and a railroad running bemade a dash for liberty The sentryS the wind blows from the north the air is tween them, for the Turks have been lay fired, but missed, and, as he could not as fresh as po the Kent caust nor is these things likewise from their end leave his post, the men got away and

• there wanting, as on that coast, aber But today there is still a considerab's reached the frontier in two days. On one tain liveliness from nessione homba interval between the two armies innocent occasion Private Young was bayoneted But there are days when the wind is from of pipes and wig and rails and bereith ugh the arm by a German sentry for the scorching south or the east and then the camely nra still the natural and neces-tel by him to ask the Commandant to see the temperature may ho anything heery link,-NB in the Manchester Guar-it their parcels from England d

(Continued at foot of next column.) dian.

arrived

ESCAPE AFTER NEARLY THREE.

YEARS.